University of California, San Francisco.
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

193,527 New Documents Added Today

LTDL added almost 200,000 new documents today bringing the total to 74,966,105 pages in 13,231,594 documents!

Here's a breakdown of the new documents added today:

  • Philip Morris - 193,316 documents. These new documents include approx 8,600 documents that were previously confidential or privileged and are now available!
    View the 2,788 "formerly confidential" documents
    View the 5,369 "formerly privileged" documents


  • British American Tobacco - 168 documents


  • Multimedia Collection - 43 videos. These include 24 discs of cigarette TV commercials from the 1940s-1970s taken from the History of Advertising Archives through the Pollay Collection. Compilations highlight the various ad campaigns of major brands over the years as well as television show sponsorship including "Your Hit Parade", "Gunsmoke" and the "I Love Lucy" show.


To view all of the documents added to the site today, go to LTDL's Expert Search page and search for today's date (yyyymmdd) in the "date added to UCSF" field like =
ddu:20110609